People complain about the endless elf subraces

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  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Is there an RPG where I can play as the type of elf who lives in a hollow tree and makes cookies?

    Seriously though, the first time I read The Lord of the Rings was years before Peter Jackson's adaptation was even announced. So I was still in the mindset that didn't make a distinction between "elves" and "fairies", so in my mind the elves were all as small as hobbits, or even smaller.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Changeling: The Lost.

    But after you come back to human life you have to live in a world too big for you.
  • BeeBee
    edited 2016-02-26 03:56:53
    omg i wasnt the only one

    I totally pictured Legolas as a Keebler Elf the first time I read LOTR.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    The thing is, Tolkien elves are basically Norse elves, who are kind of like air elementals in human-like form, whereas most Celtic-rooted definitions of "elf" and "fairy" are a lot broader, ranging from very Norse (humanoid, beautiful in a vaguely spooky way) to more twee and Victorian (brownies and whatnot) to straight-up freaky (demon centaurs, flaming black bulls), because the term is really just a catchall for everything that isn't a god that lives on the Other Side.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I find the distinction between what is a god and what isn't a god to be very arbitrary.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    It's a bit clearer cut in ancient Irish tradition than it is in, say, Japanese tradition, although in both there is, in essence, a certain delineation between the sort of divine entities which do things like control storm systems and make the sun rise and lesser powers which inhabit places like mountains and shrines. There is a further difference between the gods and the sidhe in Celtic lore, however, in that gods tend to be more human-like and approachable, representing as they do the aspects of nature which we accept and for the most part understand, whereas the sidhe are more alien and feral, being of the unknown.
  • edited 2016-02-26 12:17:52
    imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    thought occurs that by the Japanese metric Centralia's Wave/Particle Fairy should be considered a god

    although by the Celtic metric all the Centralian fairies are more god than fairy, since they're each associated with a particular, defined attribute
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    The word for "god" in Japanese is pretty vague and generic and applies to both greater and lesser deities, so technically the latter case applies to all of the above.
  • edited 2016-02-26 21:09:19
    image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    Tachyon said:

    Wave/Particle

    image
  • kill living beings
    youkai are so nonbiological that having a billion different types is ok imo
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